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DEFINITION: v. To pick up a piece of lint from the floor that your vacuum missed, and then drop it in front of the vacuum again, to give the vacuum another chance to suck it up. n. A piece of lint that a vacuum will not pick up.
Verboticisms
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Suctioenable
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: Suck-shi-en-ay-bull
Sentence: The process of suctioenabling the vacuum as it missed toenail, after finger, after earlobe was not the most efficient method for Roger to dispose of his ex-wife's body, but it certainly was entertaining. He picked up several teeth and dropped them in front of the upright, grinning Cheshire as they rattled into the dust trap.
Etymology: suction + enable
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COMMENTS:
But did he have to stop and change the bag? Heh. - Jamagra, 2008-04-04: 08:18:00
Do you write horror films in your spare time? Great sentence but a little creepy. - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-04: 08:43:00
Haha, no I don't write much other than these verbotomy nanostories. I've been hitting the blood and guts a bit heavy as of late, haven't I? - Banky, 2008-04-04: 10:05:00
that's okay - your writing is great no matter the genre - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-04: 12:14:00
Yeah, Banky's mini-stories are good stuff. The sick, twisted and gory kind of good... - Tigger, 2008-04-04: 16:21:00
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Magnetalint
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: mag-NET-eh-lint
Sentence: Valerie loved her new carpeting but hated the way lint would often cling to the shag and defy even her most diligent efforts to vacuum it up and in a moment of angry frustration she labeld the offending fuzz balls as magnetalint for the way they seemed magnetically stuck to the carpet.
Etymology: Blend of magnet and lint
Flufferhugger
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: fluff/ur/hug/ur
Sentence: I gave up vacuuming and threw out all the carpets just to be free of the flufferhuggers. Now I have a warren of dust bunnies to contend with.
Etymology: fluff + hug + fluffernutter ( a peanut butter marshmallow combination)
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COMMENTS:
Cute! - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-04: 06:41:00
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Eurekagain
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: yoŏrēkəgen
Sentence: Milly is one to give everybody a second chance. This even applies to dust bunnies. If her sad old vacuum isn’t able to pick up a lump of dust, she has been known to give them the Eurekagain treatment, running over and over these fuzzy little critters usually with less-than-wonderful results. She may even get down on her hands and knees to break up dustballs to make them easier to deal with.
Etymology: eureka (A brand of vaccuum)(a cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds or discovers something) + again (another time; once more)
Resucirt
Created by: Softbagel14
Pronunciation: Re-suh-sert is the proper way, however Re-suh-kert is also acceptable
Sentence: Behind her old vaccum was a stubborn 'resucirt', sitting in the exact spot she had just cleaned. -ed can be added to the end of the word to form 'Resucirted'. Mary 'resucirted' the lint that would not pick up the first time.
Etymology: Re- meaning 'again' -suc- from the word 'suck' -irt from the word 'dirt'
Muffigan
Created by: ballandcue
Pronunciation: [muhFF-again]
Sentence: I had to turn up the setting on the vacuum because of a damn muffigan.
Etymology:
Redysonized
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: ree-dye-son-ized
Sentence: Kelly Kitaen redysonized all the pesky fur that didn't want to get sucked up off her white carpet.
Etymology: To vacuum over again with your Dyson vacuum cleaner
Hoovermaneuver
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hoo ver man oo ver
Sentence: Al Capone was one nasty gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition. Despite many arrests by the FBI, he always slithered out of their reach by having even more dishonest lawyers and buying out the police, judges and city officials. The FBI called in the Treasury and under Eliot Ness, Capone was eventually caught on tax evasion and sentenced to life. This hoovermaneuver sucked him out of mainstream, like a piece of lint into a giant canister until he died in prison of syphilis. Here endeth the lesson.
Etymology: Hoover (vacuum cleaner brand;lawyer who director of the FBI for 48 years)
Superfluffluent
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: soo-per-fluff-floo-ent
Sentence: Desmond liked clean floors. He was constantly sweeping and vacuuming his apartment to an obsession. You would be hard pressed to find any dust bunnies under any furniture or his bed. That is, until his girlfriend recently moved in with her long-haired torti, Fluffhead. Now Fluffhead is a sociable cat who likes to rub up against you or jump up and nestle in your lap, leaving patches of fur that drives Desmond bonkers. Fluffy left a trail of her superfluffluent everywhere, which seemed not to be affected by the vacuum cleaner. Any guesses as to how long this relationship will last?
Etymology: super, from superfluous + fluff + effluent, as in waste
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COMMENTS:
Great word! It's fun to say...over and over. LOL - Mustang, 2008-04-04: 04:57:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James
stache - 2008-04-04: 06:52:00
recapitulint
stache - 2008-04-04: 07:08:00
(oops. it's early here.)
Jamagra - 2008-04-04: 08:22:00
I think this one was an actual Sniglet back in the day... can't remember the word, though. :)
Hey Jamagra, I think that sniglet was "carpetuation", which very good because it does seem to take long time to vacuum up a cat. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James